From: Eric Biggers Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 03:59:21 +0000 (-0800) Subject: docs: dm-integrity: remove reference to ARC4 X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7fc979f8204fb763e203d3e716c17d352eb96b35;p=uclinux-h8%2Flinux.git docs: dm-integrity: remove reference to ARC4 ARC4 is no longer considered secure, so it shouldn't be used, even as just an example. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer --- diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst index 594095b54b29..c00f9f11e3f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-integrity.rst @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ journal_crypt:algorithm(:key) (the key is optional) Encrypt the journal using given algorithm to make sure that the attacker can't read the journal. You can use a block cipher here (such as "cbc(aes)") or a stream cipher (for example "chacha20", - "salsa20", "ctr(aes)" or "ecb(arc4)"). + "salsa20" or "ctr(aes)"). The journal contains history of last writes to the block device, an attacker reading the journal could see the last sector nubmers